Actually, he is correct. The Ma Bell breakup in the 80s is a good example of this. The newer, smaller companies grew much faster than the original.

Also, she’s only released two books in the 15 years after the end of the original trilogy. Thats hardly milking it.

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

That would be ridiculously difficult to enforce. Also, most manufacturing, American or not, is already done in metric. It would be trivial for companies to swap units. There are many, many better ways to tariff American goods.

The purpose would be to make it very irritating for American companies to bend to the rest of the world’s standard,

OP, I think you’re Canadian, so it might be a bit of an exception but in most countries that use metric, American companies already sell products that only use metric unit. This would literally change nothing.

there is no direct rail link between the SIR and the New York City Subway system

Staten island is the only part of New York City without subway access.

But Wikipedia says it was invented in Rome?

In case you want the actual link https://youtu.be/s2TyVQGoCYo

I played a little of the first game. I’m not a huge sim player but I thought it was pretty fun.

Yeah but making average wages doesn’t necessarily mean they’re comfortable.

That’s the average salary overall. An average electronics engineer makes $109k a year in the US. and even more in places like California.

Yeah it’s not an ad break it’s an interval (like for stage plays).

At no point in it’s history since it’s creation has it EVER made money.

Actually they did make money in 2018 and 2019 but then the pandemic caused advertisers to cut spending.

*he’s been accused. He hasn’t been charged

That’s their new font. This is the new logo:

(Yes it is almost exactly the same as the old one)

I don’t think he’s “anti cap” he seems to have problems with certain industries (notice he mentions Alphabet and Walmart but doesn’t criticize them). Also this writing honestly seems very in character for him (see the goodreads review).

He sounds like fedi/reddit poster with that intro

He was

There’s no movie industry that makes as much money as Hollywood. The highest grossing Chinese film made “only” 900 million usd while the highest grossing Indian film made even less, about 260 million usd. I assume it’s mostly because Hollywood movies can be popular in India and china but Indian and Chinese movies are almost never popular outside of their countries.